I have been thinking about this for myself, for the past few years I have had BMW deisels, in terms of mileage I regularly get 60 mpg, I used to do around 70,000 in two years and then offer them to family and friends, they cover 250,000 miles without the engines being touched apart from regular oil changes. That to me is a good car and I am disappointed that my diesel choices won't be around.
My current car is a petrol Golf with a supercharger and a turbocharger, the car gets poor mileage, maybe 30-35 and the engine has a reputation for catastrophic failure at under 50,000 , but it is a clean engine, low emissions, but a bad car.
I talk to people in the trade and they say that Kia electrics are the best right now but to wait not for the next generation of EVs but the one after that. By that time the infrastructure of a charging network may have improved. A friend has an electric Volvo, took him 11 hours to cover 300 miles recently because charging stations were occupied or out of use, his wife insisted that the car was sold as soon as they got back home, having lost a complete day of her Covid breakout vacation, he bought a diesel A6.
I can imagine that by 2030 we will be driving a Chinese made electric SUV with a European badge and an Eco home charging system
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I just hope that I can press a button on the dash that plays the soundtrack of a 68 Mustang instead of the whine of an electric motor.
What happened to hydrogen, I drove a test BMW hydrogen powered 5 series in Germany and it was great, clean, green, powerful and minimal moving parts.